> harmonics ascending from right-to-left breaks my brain
It's not like instruments are totally consistent from one to another in how that sort of thing works. It's not breaking your brain, you just aren't familiar with it yet.
> if I have to read an instruction manual I'm already checked out
Not saying learning this keyboard is necessarily a worthwhile pursuit, but that reads less like criticism and more like an admission that "this just isn't for me". And it raises the question: what kind of instrument would you learn that didn't involve understanding how it works and acquiring muscle memory?
It's not like instruments are totally consistent from one to another in how that sort of thing works. It's not breaking your brain, you just aren't familiar with it yet.
> if I have to read an instruction manual I'm already checked out
Not saying learning this keyboard is necessarily a worthwhile pursuit, but that reads less like criticism and more like an admission that "this just isn't for me". And it raises the question: what kind of instrument would you learn that didn't involve understanding how it works and acquiring muscle memory?